Panthera gombaszogensis

Panthera gombaszogensis; Temporal range: Early Pleistocene (Gelasian) to Middle Pleistocene,
	Skull on display at the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze, Italy
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Felidae
Genus:	Panthera
Species:	†P. gombaszogensis
Binomial name
	†Panthera gombaszogensis; (Kretzoi, 1938)
Subspecies
	P. g. georgica (Hemmer, 2010); P. g. gombaszogensis; P. g. jinpuensis (Jiangzuo et al., 2022); P. g. toscana?;
Synonyms
	Leo gombaszögensis Kretzoi, 1938; Panthera toscana Schaub, 1949; Panthera schreuderi Koenigswald, 1960; Jansofelis vaufreyi Bonifay, 1971; Panthera gombaszoegensis (lapsus calami);

Panthera gombaszogensis, also known as the European jaguar or Eurasian jaguar, is a Panthera species that lived from about 2 million to 300,000 years ago in Europe, as well as likely elsewhere in Eurasia. The first fossils were excavated in 1938 in Gombasek Cave, Slovakia. P. gombaszogensis was a medium-large sized species that formed an important part of the European carnivore guild for a period of over a million years. Many authors have posited that it is the ancestor of the American jaguar (Panthera onca), with some authors considering it the subspecies Panthera onca gombaszogensis, though the close relationship between the two species has been questioned by some authors.